@kcl-spe.bsky.social
The School of Politics and Economics at King's College London, home to the Department of Political Economy, Department of European and International Studies, the King's Russia Institute and the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. E-mail: spe@kcl.ac.uk
EVENT: From Curiosity to Catastrophe: The Inexorable Rise of Ransomware 💻
Celebrating more than 12 years of research into extortive crime and criminal ecosystems at King's, Professor Anja Shortland will discuss her new book 🕵️📚
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💡 Congratulations to our new cohort of Fellows: Dr Andrea Ballatore @aballatore.bsky.social, Dr Rachael Kent, Dr Astrid Van den Bossche @kingsdh.bsky.social and Professor Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social!
Learn more about their projects 🔽
A ground-breaking research project co-led by @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social aims to understand how economic inequality is undermining support for democracy across Europe - and what can be done to stop it 🌍🗳️
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/major-n...
WATCH: Europe's Conundrum - Donald Trump’s Second Presidency and European Security
Examining the implications of the second Trump administration for Europe’s security environment, with a focus on shifts in US policy, and Washington’s approach to Russia and China.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZT...
A project led by our academic, @sanpages.bsky.social, has been awarded a fellowship from King's Digital Futures Institute 🙌
The project will explore how stories about the future shape how we think about work, markets and technological change 📚🤖
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/digital...
🆕 Both the inclusion AND exclusion of trade unions from climate policymaking leads to delay 🌏
Tomas Maltby and Steve Harry show Norwegian corporatism and UK marginalisation produce different but equally stalled energy transitions.
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How can governments better bridge the gap between academia and security policy? 🏛️
Prof Christoph Meyer’s expertise on strategic and intelligence studies is shaping new recommendations for the German government.
Full story: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-e...
#GlobalSecurity #PolicyImpact
How can governments better bridge the gap between academia and security policy? 🏛️
Prof Christoph Meyer’s expertise on strategic and intelligence studies is shaping new recommendations for the German government.
Full story: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-e...
#GlobalSecurity #PolicyImpact
EVENT: From Curiosity to Catastrophe: The Inexorable Rise of Ransomware 💻
Celebrating more than 12 years of research into extortive crime and criminal ecosystems at King's, Professor Anja Shortland will discuss her new book 📚
⬇️ Join us
www.eventbrite.com/e/from-curio...
⏰ Call for proposals!⏰
Organisers are calling for full panel proposals, author-meets-critics sessions, or individual papers from those who would like to attend the next annual PPE conference at King's
The deadline for submissions is February 20👇
ppesociety.org/ppe-society-...
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
EVENT: Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics
We'll be joined by Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book 📚
⏰ 13.00 - 15.00
🗓️ 4 March
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www.eventbrite.com/e/driven-to-...
Exciting project joint with @cubel.bsky.social and Mariele Macaluso.
12.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A new project led by @sanpages.bsky.social will seek to address the growing challenges posed by ageing populations and skills shortages in rural areas 📑
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/project...
🆕research co-authored by David Hope and Julian Limberg suggests rural opposition to green levies is about a perception of fairness🚜
Rural communities view carbon taxes as a "double disadvantage," punishing areas already neglected by the state🌍
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/rural-b...
🆕research co-authored by David Hope and Julian Limberg suggests rural opposition to green levies is about a perception of fairness🚜
Rural communities view carbon taxes as a "double disadvantage," punishing areas already neglected by the state🌍
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/rural-b...
Outline of a brain with computer components around it on a blue background
Two jobs can be equally exposed to artificial intelligence but have very different outcomes 🤖
A new major study by @kcl-spe.bsky.social and The AI Objectives Institute shows it’s not just how much of a job AI can do that matters - but which parts.
Read more ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/study-i...
And check out our YouTube video explainer too! ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7D...
⏰ Call for proposals!⏰
Organisers are calling for full panel proposals, author-meets-critics sessions, or individual papers from those who would like to attend the next annual PPE conference at King's
The deadline for submissions is February 20👇
ppesociety.org/ppe-society-...
'Middle powers don't have to work together to get ahead' 📝
A new op-ed by Ramon Pacheco Pardo on finding a way forward in an era of great power competition features in
@foreignpolicy.com 🌎
Read it 🔽
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/03/u...
🗣️ "The government can’t promise anything in terms of solving the problem..."
Professor Anja Shortland spoke to @thetimes.com about efforts to tackle cybercrime and fraud in the UK 🤖💻
Read it here (💷)⬇️
www.thetimes.com/money/saving...
EVENT: How to Integrate the Study of Political Violence
We'll be joined by Professor Stathis Kalyvastake to discuss his proposal for a new approach aimed at optimising and clarifying the study of violent political conflict
🕙 18.15
📅 17 February
Join us ⬇️
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🆕 Markets and New Industrial Policy: Systemic directionality or polycentric evolutionism?
Mark Pennington and Bryan Cheang examine industrial policy in a new paper for the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation 📑
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🆕 Markets and New Industrial Policy: Systemic directionality or polycentric evolutionism?
Mark Pennington and Bryan Cheang examine industrial policy in a new paper for the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation 📑
Read more ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🗣️"Beijing sees the fractures in the trans-Atlantic relationship as an opening..."
Our academic, Olivia Cheung spoke to @wsj.com about China's view of recent geopolitical turbulence 🇨🇳
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www.wsj.com/world/china-...
Our academic, Dr Paul Sagar poses a thought-provoking question in a new article for the @theguardian.com 💭📝
Read and ruminate on it here ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Two days left to submit your papers!
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Is tennis unfair? New research shows how one simple rule change could make the game fairer for competitive tournaments. Dr Mehmet Mars Seven explains.
Game. Set. (Mis)Match? 🎾🤨
With the Australian Open currently underway, researchers ask: does tennis scoring add up?
A study co-authored by Dr Mehmet Mars Seven @kcl-spe.bsky.social explores how players win matches while winning fewer games - and how to fix it.
#KingsQs ⬇️
🆕Our academic, Dr Olivia Cheung charts China's reaction to the uncertainty created by Donald Trump's diplomacy in a piece co-authored for War on the Rocks
Read 'Trump, Uncertainty, and China’s Anti-Alliance Strategy' here 👇
warontherocks.com/2026/01/trum...
EVENT: How to Integrate the Study of Political Violence
We'll be joined by Professor Stathis Kalyvastake to discuss his proposal for a new approach aimed at optimising and clarifying the study of violent political conflict
🕙 18.15
📅 17 February
Join us ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-int...